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The comoving particle horizon is the maximum radial distance a photon could have travelled since the initial Big Bang, expressed in comoving coordinates. It describes possible past causal contact, whereas a cosmological event horizon concerns photons that can reach an observer in the future.
For a radial null geodesic in the FLRW metric, . Spatial flatness sets , so with ,The given Hubble parameter then supplies . Since cosmological redshift obeys ,The corresponding proper horizon at that epoch is .
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